CVE-2005-3120

CAN-2005-3120 lynx buffer overflow

Published Oct 17, 2005 CVSS 3.1 · 9.8 Critical EPSS 23.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the HTrjis function in Lynx 2.8.6 and earlier allows remote NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via certain article headers containing Asian characters that cause Lynx to add extra escape (ESC) characters.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-874-1 New lynx packages fix arbitrary code execution
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-876-1 New lynx-ssl packages fix arbitrary code execution
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-206-1 Lynx vulnerability
References
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ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.7/SCOSA-2006.7.txt cve-icon cve-icon
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.47/SCOSA-2005.47.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-October/038019.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17150 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17216 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17230 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17231 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17238 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17248 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17340 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17360 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17444 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17445 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17480 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18376 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18584 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20383 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015065 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.423056 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-010.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-874 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-876 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-15.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:186 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2005.026-lynx.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-803.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419763/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15117 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170253 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3120 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9257 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/206-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3120 cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
debian
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 11:01 PM
Reserved
Oct 3, 2005, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 17, 2005, 8:06 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:16 PM
Severity
Critical
Public date
Oct 17, 2005, 12:00 AM